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<h1>Use cascading style sheets
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<p>A cascading style sheet is a separate HTML file that keeps track of design and format information such as the colors, fonts, font sizes, and margins you use in your help files or Web pages. By <a href="htcss2.htm">linking your HTML files to a cascading style sheet</a>, you can easily create a consistent design for all of your files. 
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<p>For example, suppose that you select a background color, colors for your links and text, and fonts for each heading level in your files. Instead of <a href="htcss8.htm">specifying that information in each file</a>, you can <a href="htcss1.htm">create a style sheet.</a> When you want to change those settings in all your files, you change only the style sheet. 
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<p>You can also create a separate style sheet for different display devices. For example, you can use a style sheet to address the formatting concerns of Braille readers, text-to-speech converters, printers, or specialized browsers that understand the style-sheet instructions.
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